Future Earth South Asia Global Secretariat Hub – South Asia was established at the Indian Institute of Science in June 2021. With the acceptance of the bid proposed by the Indian Institute of Science to host the Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub South Asia at Divecha Centre for Climate Change, major Secretariat roles related to Regional Networking, Science Communication, Outreach Activities, Science-Policy and Capacity Building programs along with secretariat support for the South Asia Regional Program on the Food Security, Coastal RIsk and Resilience, Sustainable Communities and Health Sensitization in South Asia (FoHCoS) program; has been taken up with by the Hub.

The hub operates as one of the nine Global Secretariats. Future Earth follows the concept of distributed secretariats, which function as a single entity with well-defined roles for each secretariat.